Captain Keyes?

Just figured Captain Jacob Keyes from the Halo series is voiced by Pete Stacker, the guy who did the voice acting for Griffin in Oni as well. It seems like there are quite a few resemblances between the games, but I guess it's because they were developed at about the same time? Anybody else found something that connects the two games?

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I think that was one thing about Bungie that was interesting. All their games until Halo cross referenced. There are references to Pathways in Marathon, same with Myth having very vague references to Marathon and Pathways, Oni has the least amount of references, but still has some, like names of things, and such. Halo still had some references to older games, but Halo 2 and on stopped it, due to them not owning the series anymore.

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After that I assume most of his work got recycled from that point on since it was in Bungie's asset database at that point. No point in reinventing the wheel or fixing what isn't broken after that point.

I'll have to check if he made the infamous "Arm flailing death" animation that's been in every single Halo game while I'm at it. I don't think that one was in Oni, since there's no traditional grenades or explosives in Oni to warrant such an animation.

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Interesting. Certainly some of his work could have been flat-out reused, but looking at his work history, it appears that he was also one of the guys who moved to Redmond when Bungie was acquired, and worked under MS for a couple years, so he would have worked directly on at least one Halo.

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Well im not sure if it can be heard in Halo, but I've heard the sound effect that plays upon activating a console in quite a few places. Then again I'm also not sure if that sound effect was first used in Oni or if they obtained it from somewhere else.